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Unusual amnesia case puzzles doctors until they find brain cyst

Ken Collins KPaulC at email.msn.com
Thu Jul 22 21:20:57 EST 1999


ha!

"7/22/99 1:05 AM"... caught folks' 'changing servers' again.

K. P. Collins

Ken Collins wrote in message ...
>to anyone who cares...
>
>if you read AoK, Ap5, you'll see that, although i do integrate septal and
>subicular fx, which incorporate neural activation that travels via the
>fornix, i did not integrate the fornix... when i read for AoK, i could find
>no evidence of "memory" deficits correlated with fornix section... so i
>didn't address the fornix explicitly in AoK, choosing to focus on the
>perforant pathway and the more caudal route from the "greater hypothalamus"
>area, and their "ratchet-pawling" convergence toward TD E/I(min) within the
>hippocampi, as it is governed by amygdalar fx...
>
>i responded in my preceding post, including the fornix, because of what was
>reported in the _New York Times_ article... but i'm left wondering if this
>more-recent thing is "just" another instance that's similar to the
>totally-erroneous "discussion" of hippocampal theata, and other, rythms,
>that was on the board a while back.
>
>i stand on what's in AoK. i =did= the work that was necessary.
>
>it's my hope that folks'll, one day, understand that doing the work almost
>killed me. i've still not recovered from the intensity of that effort, and,
>since it has seemed that nothing i do makes any difference, i don't bother
>much, these days, to check before i comment.
>
>i wish someone could understand how reprehensible it is to me that folks've
>posted, and published, erroneous stuff "just" to "test" my understanding.
if
>this is yet another instance of the same, then the _New York Times_ can
>piss-off real fast.
>
>as for the other stuff, i expect that folks who've participated will, one
>day, find that they'll need to explain their actions.
>
>i stand in what's in AoK. these days, i'm just trying to maintain life
>within myself in the face of all the B. S. that's been dropped on me... no
>one understands, or cares, that, for me, it's a life-and-death struggle
that
>i willingly took up on folks' behalves... yet, my income is interfered
with,
>my loved ones are harrassed, i'm routinely "poked" and "probed" as if i'm
>some kind of sub-human "thing", i can't pass-gas without affecting the
>"stock market"... and so forth... yet everything i've worked to accomplish
>is on behalf of those who subject me to such.
>
>...and, yes, i was well-aware of the Norwegian-sounding names on the board
>recently.
>
>i can think of little this side of Heaven that would give me more pleasure
>than to awaken to maidens singing "Santa Lucia", but until someone allows
me
>to discuss my work in-person, i'll gladly go the way of Lucy, and let it go
>at that.
>
>K. P. Collins
>
>Ken Collins wrote in message ...
>>as is explained in AoK, Ap5, the hippocampi guide convergence upon
>>'supersystem configurations' with respect to the topologically-distributed
>>ratio of excitation to inhibition [TD E/I] that is occuring within the
>brain
>>[within the nervous system].
>>
>>the fornix is a bundle of nerve fibers that carries TD E/I-relevant
>>information between low-level mechanisms, and and which, importantly,
>>'inverts' the topology of such, so that it can be appropriately interfaced
>>with intermediate-'level' 'supersystem configuration' dynamics.
>>
>>the cyst's pressing against the fornix, interrupted this communication
>which
>>is fundamentally necessary for the formation of formerly-non-existent
>>intermediate-'level' 'supersystem configurations'.
>>
>>the cyst's disruption left the individual's brain incapable of forming
new,
>>intermediate-'level' 'supersystem configurations'.
>>
>>absent this capacity, the functionality of the remaining low- and
>>high-'level' 'supersystem configuration' mechanisms [brain stem,
>cerebellum,
>>basal ganglia, prefrontal cortex, along with incomplete hypothalamic
>>functionality], functioned 'normally'... leaving the individual to
>>'experience' what was left of his information-processing dynamics... kind
>of
>>like a wharehouse during a trucker's strike... one can walk around in it,
>>and see what's already there, but one will find nothing new 'on the
>>shelves'.
>>
>>when the cyst was drained, the individual's information-processing
dynamics
>>returned to 'normal'.
>>
>>the case is a good example of how information gathered by Medical
>>practicioners has entered into the complete 'picture' of brain [nervous
>>system] function that exists. [for a more-integrated discussion, see AoK.]
>>
>>cheers, ken collins
>>
>>John wrote in message <932533330.456928 at server.australia.net.au>...
>>>
>>>"Ron Blue" wrote in message <00f001bed2d8$9bd2b980$99170a3f at pavilion>...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.dallasnews.com/science/0719sci2amnesia.htm
>>>
>>>
>>>I don't know why the finding the brain cyst solved the puzzle of this
>case.
>>>Okay, in memory area, but that's not explaining anything.
>>>
>>>Can anyone help me with this???
>>>
>>>
>>>John
>>>Remove XXXX in reply address
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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